Delcy Morelos
I am a body, I am earth
Biography
Born in 1967 in Tierralta in Colombia, Delcy Morelos lives and works in Bogotá. Her work blends an Andean ancestral perspective with minimalist aesthetics. In her works, her material investigations extend into the use of natural materials such as earth, clay, fabric, and plant fibers, to develop large-scale multisensory installations.
Solo exhibitions include: -Profundis, CAAC , Seville, Spain (2024); -El Abrazo, Dia Chelsea, New York (2023); -Enie, Fundación NC-Arte, Bogotá (2018);
PROFUNDIS
The scent of damp earth, visible roots, new leaves, from the first plants that Columbus brought to Spain after his discovery of America, are the ingredients with which Delcy Morelos has conceived the installation.
Using local soil, Sevillian ‘yellow albero,’ and red soils from Huelva, she creates masses inside the museum to encourage a reunion with the essence of nature.
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EL ABRAZO(THE HUG)
Reorienting considerations of land and site toward embodied forms of material and ecological knowledge, Morelos aims to cultivate moments of connection with what she describes as the “intimate humidity of the earth.” Morelos’s work explores the sustaining power of mud in its many forms
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ENIE
The installation Enie, whose title means "earth" in the Uitoto language, is a tribute to food, to the primordial soup, that theory of a mud rich in organic compounds, carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen where the molecules necessary to sustain the first forms of life were synthesized.
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Conclusion
The result is an experience that often involves sight, smell, hearing and touch, causing an experience among its spectators that is as sensorial as it is mystical and transcendent.
A technique that she use is creating pastes of mud with materials or spices.
Her large-scale installations are made with materials obtained from the places she visits, configured through a reading of the exhibition site.
“In ancestral Andean traditions, the human being is living earth: I am a body, I am earth. In the exhibition space, the earth expresses itself; it is the center and the mirror of what we are.” Delcy Morelos
Thanks for your time!
Lucas Enriquez De Rademaeker
Delcy Morelos
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Created on March 17, 2026
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Delcy Morelos
I am a body, I am earth
Biography
Born in 1967 in Tierralta in Colombia, Delcy Morelos lives and works in Bogotá. Her work blends an Andean ancestral perspective with minimalist aesthetics. In her works, her material investigations extend into the use of natural materials such as earth, clay, fabric, and plant fibers, to develop large-scale multisensory installations. Solo exhibitions include: -Profundis, CAAC , Seville, Spain (2024); -El Abrazo, Dia Chelsea, New York (2023); -Enie, Fundación NC-Arte, Bogotá (2018);
PROFUNDIS
The scent of damp earth, visible roots, new leaves, from the first plants that Columbus brought to Spain after his discovery of America, are the ingredients with which Delcy Morelos has conceived the installation. Using local soil, Sevillian ‘yellow albero,’ and red soils from Huelva, she creates masses inside the museum to encourage a reunion with the essence of nature.
Gallery
EL ABRAZO(THE HUG)
Reorienting considerations of land and site toward embodied forms of material and ecological knowledge, Morelos aims to cultivate moments of connection with what she describes as the “intimate humidity of the earth.” Morelos’s work explores the sustaining power of mud in its many forms
Gallery
ENIE
The installation Enie, whose title means "earth" in the Uitoto language, is a tribute to food, to the primordial soup, that theory of a mud rich in organic compounds, carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen where the molecules necessary to sustain the first forms of life were synthesized.
Gallery
Conclusion
The result is an experience that often involves sight, smell, hearing and touch, causing an experience among its spectators that is as sensorial as it is mystical and transcendent.
A technique that she use is creating pastes of mud with materials or spices.
Her large-scale installations are made with materials obtained from the places she visits, configured through a reading of the exhibition site.
“In ancestral Andean traditions, the human being is living earth: I am a body, I am earth. In the exhibition space, the earth expresses itself; it is the center and the mirror of what we are.” Delcy Morelos
Thanks for your time!
Lucas Enriquez De Rademaeker